It Happens Every Noon
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It Happens Every Noon
- Publication date
- 1966
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- Public Domain
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Item Size
- 834.9M
Describes the National School Lunch Program, which is designed to provide from a third to one-half of the student's daily nutritional needs. Explains the importance of a well-balanced midday meal.
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- 3050
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- 1966
- Run time
- 0:13:29
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Reviewer:
333maxwell
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January 19, 2018
Subject: Fantastic era piece.. Just like going back.
Subject: Fantastic era piece.. Just like going back.
"Teen aged girls are amongst the most poorly fed of any group in the nation. Alarming isn't it? When you consider their future jobs as wives and mothers."
... />It kind of sums up the whole movie. 'They' (women rarely wrote that kind of stuff) didn't mean any malice of course, but it get's harder and harder to digest all the time.
... />It kind of sums up the whole movie. 'They' (women rarely wrote that kind of stuff) didn't mean any malice of course, but it get's harder and harder to digest all the time.
Reviewer:
Christine Hennig
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May 7, 2005
Subject: Every Child Deserves an Attrocious Lunch
Subject: Every Child Deserves an Attrocious Lunch
This mid-60s film encourages all schools to sign up for the Federal School Lunch Program. Different kinds of lunch programs are shown, from fancy hot lunches
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down to sandwiches in snacks, in different kinds of schools. Most striking is the clueless racism (while the white schoolkids get a hot lunch in a nice cafeteria, the black kids get sack lunches) and sexism (in the rural schools, the girls have to make the lunch so the teacher can work with the younger children, boys no doubt) and the portrayal of southern rural one-room schoolhouses, one where the teacher has to pick up the food from the local general store, which looks like its out of the mid-19th century, and where the kids have to wash up at the pump before eating. To see this in a mid-60s film is surprising, but it only shows how there are some parts of this country that live very different lives from the mainstream. The film has great historical value for that reasonit really gives a comprehensive portrait of the mid-60s school lunch program. The food, of course, looks just as bad as you remember it, even though its supposed to be a type A lunch. No wonder the teens would rather eat greasy chili dogs. A quintessential government film.
Ratings: Camp/Humor Value: ***. Weirdness: ***. Historical Interest: *****. Overall Rating: ****.
Ratings: Camp/Humor Value: ***. Weirdness: ***. Historical Interest: *****. Overall Rating: ****.
Reviewer:
Spuzz
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November 8, 2003
Subject: Lunch for all!
Subject: Lunch for all!
A nice heartstring-pulling (but badly titled) film telling us how important the School Lunch program is to schools, and how these students need to have
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type A lunches (from all 4 four food groups!) I was actually touched by the scenes of the kids having lunch right at their desk, as no other facility was available, and the resourcefulness of the country school teacher and how much respect she got from her students. Very nicely done. Highly reccomended!
Reviewer:
K.P. Lee
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August 23, 2003 (edited)
Subject: Hooray for school lunch!
Subject: Hooray for school lunch!
"It Happens Every Noon" discusses the importance of school lunch programs. The images the operations and logistics of these programs (especially in isolated
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and impoverished rural areas) make this an interesting historical document. Produced by the Motion Picture Service for the U.S.D.A.
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